August 17, 2011

Smith says Perry's manliness is "shtick" which can be taken too far. There's something weirdly beta about Smith's relationship with Perry's masculinity. I notice how he lapses into light lisping toward the end of that clip when he's lauding Perry in relation to Bachmann. As I said in the previous post, Perry seems to have thrown some macho whammy on the press boys.

ADDED: I don't think Smith refers to it — though perhaps he means to allude to it — but there have long been rumors that Perry is gay. Google "Is Rick Perry Gay?" and you'll easily find the sort of stuff that's out there. Byron York might have intended to allude to these rumors when he said, in the clip above, that Perry isn't the kind of guy that is interested in Lady Gaga.

Remember that journolist (I forget who) that said he/she felt a visceral loathing whenever they saw GWB because of his swagger and cowboy boots? Der Spiegel captured what these two tricksters are trying to pull off here-even though it's blatantly obvious.

Perry’s gay, you know…Or consorts with strippers and prostitutes…whoa, hold on, no one said which sex strippers and prostitutes, so the two stories are NOT contradictory….He’s not a real man/Conservative.

Just doing the job of the Democratic party, the Media and Paulbots so they don’t have to and can focus on the IMPORTANT things, like Palin at a fair or Bachmann eating a corn dog.

Libs all through 2008-"OMG!!! Look at Obama! He's sooo charismatic! And look at those abs!!! And his steely gaze!!...ooooh, I just luvvvv him..."

Now Perry gets the opposite treatment because deep down inside every Liberal "man" there is a 13-year old girl trying to get out. Might as well put down the Salon magazine and pick up the Tiger Beat, fellas, you're not fooling anyone.

Those who recognize Perry as a natural preditor for entrenched partisans of both sides in DC believe that he, like Palin, must be destroyed. He has lot of the same ability to grow stronger from their perceived fear and loathing.

Must not have spent much time in Texas, or dealt much with Aggies. If it is shtick, then much of the state is infested with it.

The difference between the west, where I come from, and Texas, where Perry comes from, is that our manly men are quiet about their manly accomplishments, while Texans are more likely to brag about it. It is just the way that they are - a bit loud and boisterous.

Oh, I read someplace that if Walker gets challenged with a recall, ahead, Russ Feingold is gonna be the opponent. And, I wondered if that was a threat or a promise?

I also know back in 1936, when FDR was up for his own first re-election, things in America were really deep down awful. (He was accused of creating a worthless alphabet soup.) But people didn't change horses.

I have this sick feeling obama is gonna waltz into his second term. And, the tea party? Can't create a majority with smoke & mirrors.

The difference between the west, where I come from, and Texas, where Perry comes from, is that our manly men are quiet about their manly accomplishments, while Texans are more likely to brag about it.

If a politician from the “west”(or any other region) talks about his accomplishments it’s called “campaigning.” If a politician from Texas talks about his accomplishments at all it’s labeled “bragging.” So if Perry campaigns on his record … well … he’s just a braggart. Such is the power of stereotypes; such is the intent of a meme.

Will unabashed masculinity be a handicap in this age of the metrosexual?

I’ve spent a lot of time in Texas and other parts of the country. I can’t say that I’ve noticed any higher proportion of bragging amongst Texans as from folks from any other state. I have noticed a bias against Texans, however. And this is definitely a barrier for Perry. Time will tell whether it is a major or minor impediment.

They read Althouse and will twist your phrase and make him into a Michael Vick or something!

Ha!

Ya I think they already have him hanging Bernake for treason. Ben Smith doesn't mind misquoting the hell out of that. You'd think he'd want to maintain his credibility on what candidates have said a little longer.

Also Perry started packing because he was running into rattlesnakes when he was jogging.

"... Chris Matthews and crowd were incredulous over this statement. They were gloating that nobody would vote for a guy expressing such sentiments..."

Which really illustrates the divide between liberals and conservatives. Matthews and others like him are perfect examples of the spoiled teenager who wants all the freedoms of being an adult but with the safety net that is mommy and daddy when they fuck up.

Wow. I hope he's in. I would like very much to see Ryan and Palin in the race.

I actually think it would be a huge mistake for Ryan to run. I've personally heard him say several times that he wasn't running; as recently as last Fall. But I guess Obama's weakness now is creating an opening. I think the plan was to run in 2016 but with Perry entering the race, if he wins election the earliest chance for Ryan in all likelihood wouldn't be until 2020.

The Obama campaign would destroy Ryan if he ran now:1. Although he postures as a fiscal conservative, Paul Ryan voted for TARP, the auto bailouts, taxing AIG executives, and the recent debt limit increase. The Obama campaign will be happy to point to those votes.

2. They will also paint him as the guy would wants to end Social Security in an attempt to scare seniors.

3. There's a reason presidents don't come from the House. Although he has a much stronger record than Michelle Bachmann he still need more experience and ,preferably, executive experience. I think he'd be better off running for the open Senate seat next year.

Perry/Cain or Perry/Ryan. One wonders what the general mood over at Romney's camp is these past couple days.

My hope is that the GOP candidates don't savage each other too much. Some may decide that Obama's so weak that they can ratchet up the primary battle without possibly loosing the general. I would disagree at this point.

"...as well as their much more stupid step-cousins, ad agency executives, who, with the exception of Old Spice and Dos Equis, wouldn't know a masculine man if he punched them in the face Norris-style."

Old Spice was originally marketed as a women's perfume. When that failed, they "butched" it up a bit, made an aftershave formulation, and it was a stupendous success.

The wonderful and cheap "Stetson" fragrance is basically Estee Lauder's "Youth Dew" with cowboys on the box.

Most of what is marketed as "masculine" fragrance today is complete garbage, partly because of years of cheapening of formula budgets, partly because of the pussies in Europe banning half the aromachemicals necessary to make great fragrances, and partly due to the same loathsome impulse toward sterility that leads half the young men in this country to shave their privates and wax their chests.

"I caught a whiff of "Polo" the other day and, as smell is a very powerful memory activator, was bitch-slapped by 1986."

Polo's actually a great fragrance.

It's funny about smell memory. People tend to think that it's unique among the senses in its ability to transport you back in time, but it only seems unique because it's so specific. Your olfactory receptors have to receive exactly the same molecules or they won't trigger the memory of a smell. It's because of the rarity of hitting the nail squarely on the head that smell seems such a magical time machine.

I actually noticed this first with Old Spice. Smelling the current version reminds me somewhat of my grandfather, who splashed it on with abandon. A few years ago I got a big, unused bottle of Old Spice from the 70s. When I popped it open, whammo!, hit the nail right on the head and for an instant my grandfather— his aqua-blue tiled bathroom, the linoleum pattern, his beard stubble— became perfectly tangible, like a hallucination. Even though the current version of Old Spice is the same in structure as it ever was, the bits of reformulation removed whatever subtle keys were needed to unlock the door between a fond remembrance and a brief visit by a tangible apparition of Lt Col Grandpa.

Palladian: One of the jobs I had in high school was at a Schullman plant, the makers of Old Spice. I can open the top of Old Spice in the drugstore and be transported across the decades. Smell, as Proust demonstrated, is a powerful thing.

Rick Perry may not be gay but he can conceivably make Obama cry during a debate. Obama is a pussy, a real metro-man pussy. He is totally in trouble if he has to debate Perry because Perry will not be nice.

"I agree. That's why I use my own handcrafted cologne. It's called Piss and Vinegar."

A lot of fragrances contain materials that smell like piss and shit in concentration. It's one of the secrets to creating a great scent, to add a carefully judged touch of filth in the far background. Almost all the classical perfumes (both "masculine" and "feminine") have these "animalic" notes. Some of them even contained actual nasty things such as the very common material called civet, which is a paste scraped from the butthole of this creature.

And vinegar used to be a common solvent for perfumes until the 19th century, because it was easier to obtain and cheaper than distilled spirit. There were even common silver objects called "vinaigrettes, which were little boxes that held a piece of cotton or sponge soaked in vinegar-diluted perfume, used like a pomander to ward off the foul smells of pre-modern-sanitation Europe.

I actually noticed this first with Old Spice. Smelling the current version reminds me somewhat of my grandfather,

That was my dad's scent. Which is why I have to laugh every time I see an ad portraying Old Spice wearers as sexy with gorgeous women hanging on them. Don't try to sell me Old Spice to give to my husband: I don't need to feel like I am kissing my dad.

Or Calvert!, as my grandmother usually shouted at him. Lt Col Calvert used to wash down his Darvon and heart medicine with a few shots of Wild Turkey (not, as you might think, Calvert whiskey!) at the VFW, before climbing into his 1970 Chrysler Newport and barreling home, with the left turn signal on the whole way, leaving a trail of Old Spice fumes and the whistle of a hearing aid in his wake.

As an antidote to all this he man conservative stuff about Perry: in 2000 when Perry took over, Texas spending was $49 billion; the latest number available is $82 billion. Adjusted for inflation the growth in the size of government has been 35%. In 2000 Texas state debt was almost $14 billion. By 2009 that number had grown to $34 billion. Adjusted for inflation debt doubled under Perry.

As an antidote to all this he man conservative stuff about Perry: in 2000 when Perry took over, Texas spending was $49 billion; the latest number available is $82 billion. Adjusted for inflation the growth in the size of government has been 35%.

Of course, the population of the State of Texas went up 21% during that period...

So, I really do not want to hear another damned word about my carbon footprint or fossil fuel consumption when the Hypocrite-in-Chief flies a gas-guzzling 747, to a gas-guzzling RV delivered in a gas-guzzling C-5, attended by fleet of gas-guzzling Suburbans for absolutely no reason other than his own glorification.

The Obama campaign would destroy Ryan if he ran now:1. Although he postures as a fiscal conservative, Paul Ryan voted for TARP, the auto bailouts, taxing AIG executives, and the recent debt limit increase. The Obama campaign will be happy to point to those votes.

So... Team Obama is gonna rail on Ryan for being a bipartisan compromiser? Really?

What I like about Ryan is that he's a moderate from Wisconsin. We need another strong moderate in the race. I think Ryan undercuts Mittens in a powerful way. There's literally no reason to vote for Mitt if you can vote for Ryan. Why, because you like Romneycare?

How could anyone avoid that comparison? The President is traveling by bus. When is the last time that happened? (And what sort of horrendously expensive security nightmare is it?) And if he suddenly decided to be "folksy" and do a bus tour, wouldn't the comparison to Palin be obvious?

Of course, if Palin is completely sneaky, she heard he was having a bus purchased *before* she planned her bus tour, which she could do quickly without an itinerary in order to make it seem he was copying her.

I like Romney. He's still my first choice among the field. I knew him long before he became the popular caricature of a "RINO". (Like when he was being called a "rabid right-winger" while he was my Governor.) I admired his years of opposition to MA Unions/corruptocrats, even health care reform, when he issued countless vetoes to try to make it less onerous.His Olympics success as well as his Bain & Co. experience are examples of why I still think he'd be a great Pres. Take a pile of shit and turn into something productive. That's certainly the position the next President will find himself in, so why not someone we know can pull it off? As for his relative "conservatism", I say who cares? The House will be pushing the conservative message, the Pres. just needs to be an effective executive, not a firebrand. Let him take anyone from the field as V.P., from Bachmann to Cain to Gingrich and let them be the emotional/philiosophical leader. Meanwhile, Romney can do his best to drag us out of the biggest "bankruptcy" in world history.

"I'd rather see a Perry/Rubio ticket...that would be frickin' nightmare for the Dems."

I haven't been impressed with Rubio the few times I've seen him interviewed. Seem like another politician mouthing platitudes. In his case, they were platitudes I agreed with, but I didn't see an sharp mind at work there.

1. He was jogging with a hand gun.2. Coyotes run when they see people. He's a hell of a shot.

Carries a Ruger .380. Laser sights.

Righties just love that Big Daddy figure.Idiotic. The last thing Righties see government as (and the president representing) is Big Daddy ready to take care of all your needs for you. There is a party that does look to government (again, the president representing) as a entity to take care of all their needs, but it aint the Righties. So, I'm guess your projecting. Again.

Read through the whole thread to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Nobody mentioned Roissy, and Thouse went straight up Beta bashing to start this thing. Any Beta who wonders why he sits at home and doesn't even bother to spank it, can now start doing some research.

Beta's, flamers, and Beta Chasers have been allowed to define the politics of the beginning of this century. It must end.